Dr. Salman Ahmad
Founder SADEQUAIN Foundation
Dr. Salman Ahmad is an electrical engineer by profession. He spent more than thirty years working on nuclear missile technology in senior executive positions at LTV Corporation and General Dynamics in the United States.
In 1999 he founded an electronics communications company, Santel Corporation, in Silicon Valley in the Bay Area, which developed high speed communication devices. He retired from his profession in 2007 to establish SADEQUAIN Foundation USA in San Diego, California. The Foundation’s goal is to discover, preserve, and promote the art and poetry of Sadequain.
Dr. Salman Ahmad has authored twenty-two (22) books on Sadequain which document Sadequain’s life, his place in history, and his artwork which is scattered around the world in remote places such as Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan, India, the Middle East, Europe, Canada, and the USA. His book titled The Saga of SADEQUAIN is the largest book on the subject of art ever published in Pakistan.
In addition, Dr. Salman Ahmad has been published in art magazines NuktaArt, Nigaah, She, newspapers DAWN, Express Tribune, and more.
Dr. Salman Ahmad has delivered lectures on Sadequain at San Diego Museum of Art, Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, National College of Art in Lahore, Indus Valley School of Art in Karachi, Pakistan National Council of Arts in Islamabad, and other prestigious institutions.
The SADEQUAIN Foundation is recognized as the leading authority on Sadequain’s life and work. It regularly provides guidance to students ranging from candidates for PhD, Masters, under-graduate, and vocational education. The Foundation provides guidance to world’s leading art dealers, art galleries, art journalists, and art collectors on Sadequain’s work.
Since 2007, Dr. Salman Ahmad has curated more than seventy (70) seminars and exhibitions of Sadequain’s works and organized book launches in the USA, Canada, UK, Dubai, Pakistan, and India. Some of the venues these events were held were at Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Canada, San Diego Museum of Art in California, Pakistan Embassy in Washington DC, Pakistan’s Consulate in Toronto, Canada, Pakistan’s Consulate in Los Angles, California, at the annual convention of the Aligarh Muslim University Alumni Association in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, at the annual convention of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA) in Washington DC, Australian High Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan National Council of Arts in Islamabad, Pakistan and many other distinguished venues.
